Sunday, July 11, 2004

Chemistry In Life Fifth Edition

Hello, welcome back to my Chemistry in Life. This is the fifth edition, the special sports edition. First is coming from Lisbon, Portugal. Let's check them out. Oh, and before I begin, I wanna apologize for a little mistake, but... made my feeling not so good. Sorry for my two sis, Corinna Betsch and Cora Brinkman. At the previous edition, I said that Ralf married Corinna and it was a mistake, since Ralf's wife is Cora. Well, so, so sorry for them. Anyway, knowing that all the Schumacher brothers' wife names are initialized as CB, nick names started with C and sounds like the same make me feels something like... Dizzy. (>.EURO 2004

One day before the semi final match between Greece and Czech, I suddenly felt not so good about Czech. Well, I've said last week, that I don't mind if Greek people win on the semi final and final. And morning before the match, suddenly I feel like heard this words: "Greece, Greece." So, I try to predict again. Don't know why, suddenly (again), I change my mind. Ok, Greece wins 1-0 from Czech. Dellas made the first silver goal in Euro in the extra time. \(^_^)/

At the final, once again, I feel dizzy. I just feeling dizzy that I had to predict the match between Portugal and Greece, where I support Greece so much, but I have to predict about it seriously. By the way, according to my dad (and I agree with him), Greek player playing nothing to lose, their mentality are so high after win on the semi final, while Portuguese were oppressed to win as the host.

This match was a very historical story, by the way. For the first time of Euro, the opening and closing match are the same, Greece-Portugal, and the winner also the same, Greece. In the final match, the only goal that made Greece a new winner was made by Angelos Charisteas on the 57. My dear... He is such an angel.... An angel from Greece. \(^_^)/

Anyway, thanks for Portugal. They were playing so good. And there was a little rush, 5 minutes before the end of the match. A man, looks like a crazy one, entered the football field, throwing something like... Barcelona's costume in front of Luis Figo, running, and then broke Nikopolidis' goal post. Everyone was very shocked at that time, including Figo (and me, of course). Damn that crazy man~!!! (>.

FRANCE GRAND PRIX 2004

Magny-Cours, France.

Pole position was Fernando Alonso at this time, followed by Michael Schumacher. No Ralf Schumacher here, as he seems would rest from the race for 2 or 3 months... (>.At the start, Alonso goes into the lead while Schumi was exactly behind him, followed by Jarno Trulli who bursts into the third place ahead of Jenson Button and David Coulthard. Behind them, there were Juan Pablo Montoya, Kimi Raikkonen, Takuma Sato, Rubens Barrichello, and Mark Webber

Lap 2, the first fastest lap for Alonso this day, but at lap 3, he had to trade the fastest lap with Schumi.

Lap 4, while Schumi and Alonso were trading the fastest lap, Barrichello passed Sato for eighth.

Lap 7, Schumi was closer to Alonso, while Trulli left 4 seconds behind... Another fastest lap for Schumi... (^_^)

Lap 11, the pit stop time started~!!! Schumi comes in first, very unexpectedly. Even for me... He left the Renault duo 1-2 and Button in third. Finally, Schumi back in eighth place. Kimi who was also pitting from seventh dropped to 13th.

Lap 12, DC dropped back to 12th and Barrichello dropped to 10th after pit stop.

Lap 13, Trulli and Montoya entered the pit at the almost same time... Trulli rejoined sixth and Montoya was ninth. In the middle field (again), Giancarlo Fisichella was overtaken by Kimi, and Nick Heidfeld was passed by Marc Gene (Ralf's substitute).

Lap 14, Alonso and Button were pitting. After pit stop, Alonso still leading with Sato and Schumi behind him. Button rejoined in sixth.

Lap 15, Sato was pitting, but has to retire as he has engine failure in lap 16. Again...

Lap 25, Schumi was closer than a second behind Alonso, while Trulli left about 8 seconds far behind...

Lap 28, Kimi started the second pit stop time and dropped from seventh to 10th.

Lap 29, second pit stop for Schumi. He rejoined in the fifth place. Coulthard also stopped and dropped to eighth from fifth.

Lap 31, Alonso still leading, while Trulli and Barrichello headed for the pit lane. Schumi grab his opportunity and set the fastest lap of the race.

Lap 32, as Schumi sets another fastest lap, Alonso headed into the pit and rejoined behind the Ferrari. Meanwhile, Zsolt Baumgartner was retired.

Lap 42, Schumi was pitting and back in the second place. A very surprise to all~!!! As Ferrari seems to have four-stop strategy with Schumi...

Lap 46, Alonso pitted and left 11 seconds behind Schumi.

Lap 54, the third pit stop time 'ended' with Gene was the last. Gene falls behind Monty and Webber.

Lap 57, Schumi and Alonso's gap was over 22 seconds. MY DEAR~!!!

Lap 58, the last pit stop for Schumi. A really fast pit, as it was only 5.8 seconds. Schumi re-emerges still in the lead.

Lap 70, Schumi finally won his ninth victory in 10 races. Alonso was second, while Trulli passed by Barrichello at the penultimate corner and Rubens grabbed the third place of Jarno. Fifth was Button, followed by Coulthard, Kimi, and Montoya. It's so nice to hear the German and Italian music again... For the ninth time. (^_~)

At the press conference, Schumi said that no risk no fun, and Ross Brawn decided to use four-stop strategy for Schumi... Extremely challenging, I think. As I was extremely surprised and (almost) hysterically exclaimed at that time. And it's also fantastic... (OR FUNTASTIC??? Anything you said about it...) V(^_^)V

WINDOWS XP ~ INDONESIAN VERSION

I've read a magazine about this only a few days before. Well, anyone tried this version of Windows XP yet??? Especially for my entire Indonesian friend... *lucu pisan euy...*

Can you believe that they translated mouse as tetikus, keyboard as papan tombol, work offline as bekerja luring (luar jaring, red.), online as daring, printer as pencetak, server as peladen, cursor as petunjuk tetikus, wizard as wisaya, and so on??? It seems a little bit funny, I think, so I really want to try this version... Well, at least there's the download version on Microsoft website... (You can download it, too~!!! Come on, guys, try this~!!! *duh... semangatnya...*)

After I try this version, I'll inform you soon...

So this is the end of Chemistry in Life Fifth Edition. I'm Dian Anggraini. Thank you for staying here and... Good bye~! (^_^)/~~

There's no need to be No. 1
you've always been a very special only one.

I saw many kinds of flowers
lined up in front of the flowershop.
everyone has their favorite kinds
but all of them are pretty.
Without competing to see
which was the best among them,
they were standing
straight up proudly inside the bucket.

So why then do we humans
have to compare ourselves to one another?
Eventhough each and every person is different,
why do we want to be number one?

Yes we are each..
a flower unlike any other in the world
and each and everyone of us carries a different seed
We should focus all our efforts
on trying to make that flower bloom.

There are people who are
constantly unsure of what they want,
as they laugh a little put out.
It can't be helped, all those flowers,
that did everything they could to bloom, are pretty.
when at last that person comes out of the store,
they're holding a colorful bouquet
and I see them smiling happilly as they go by me.

I never knew their name but
that day they made me smile.
we too are like flowers that bloom in places
where no one pays any attention.

Yes we too are each...
a flower unlike any other in the world
and each and everyone of us carries a different seed
We should focus all our efforts
on trying to make that flower bloom.

Small flowers and big flowers,
none are the same as one another.
There's no need to be No. 1
you've always been a very special only one.